College of Visual & Performing Arts
Fine Arts Doctoral Program

Texas Tech University offers a unique interdisciplinary program
leading to the Ph.D. in Fine Arts. Students in the Fine Arts Doctoral
Program first obtain a foundational core of knowledge from interdisciplinary
courses including Colloquium, Arts Histories, Arts in Contemporary Contexts, and Topics; Philosophy constitutes a multidisciplinary addition. Students then specialize in a specific are of visual or performing arts.

The mission of the Fine Arts Doctoral Program is to offer a unique interdisciplinary
education in Art, Music, Theatre, and Philosophy; provide a comprehensive
approach to doctoral study of the arts and of aesthetic principles; and
foster leadership in the arts for emerging and established institutions for
the benefit of our cultural communities and society as
a whole.

Coming in Fall 2014:

Students entering in fall 2014 will engage an exciting re-designed core program (five courses) that emphasizes interdisciplinarity among the arts. It comprises four required courses: a Colloquium that explores disciplinary formation and types of interdisciplinary engagement, an intergrated Arts including a colloquium that explores disciplinary formation and types of interdisciplinary engagement, an integrated Arts Histories course, Arts in Contemporary Contexts, and one of two courses in philisophical Aesthetics; additional Topics courses and offerings in philosophy complete a student's core program.

ART

Within the Fine Arts doctoral program with a field of specialization in Art, students examine
diverse discourses in the visual arts. The Art specialization considers the political,
economic, and aesthetic matrices in which the arts are embedded.Learn More

MUSIC

A music student may pursue intensive work in one of several areas, including;
Composition, Conducting, Music Administration, Music Education, Music History
and Literature, Music Theory, Performance, and Pedagogy.